On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:37:40 -0800, Doug Ewell <dewell@...> wrote:

> Nicholas Bodley <nbodley at speakeasy dot net> wrote:
>
>> Well, "typo" is an euphemism for a misspelling;

> Not always.

Of course.

> Lots of people type "teh" when they mean "the," at least once in a
> while. Extremely few people, even poor spellers, would actually believe
> "teh" is the correct spelling.
> My most common typo, unfortunately, is "charatcer."

Oh, dear. Indeed. Transpositions are the bane of my typing. I use the
Dvorak letter layout (middle row is A O E U I D H T N S), and those
left-hand vowels seem to get typed faster than the rest of the keys. Maybe
I'm mildly dyslexic, but I'd surely welcome an adjustable time lag for
those keys to give the others a chance! Afaik, I'm not a "suppressed
leftie."

Once upon a time ("wants pawn term"), I used a DOS text editor created by
a fellow with an English name who lives in Hong Kong; perhaps PEdit. It
had a dedicated single keystroke, F4, iirc, to swap the two
most-recently-typed characters, as with Emacs "twiddle". (I think that's
what it's called. Emacs is not my religion, although I don't dislike it.)
That function is all too rare, I think.

One word that slows me to a crawl is "remember". Because I'm definitely
in what the Spaniards call The Third Age, (tercer edad; love it), I write
a lot about a lifetime of technical topics, and strive for accuracy; tha
word comes up often (as does "iirc" :) ).

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Curious info: The Blickensderfer typewriter had its own letter layout, and
the "bottom" row was "D H I A T E N S O R". Seems that Dr. Dvorak might
have known that; the right half of his home row is "D H T N S". He might
also have liked BMW; bottom row is "qjkxbmwvz".

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Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
Lysdexics untie!